Ana Abril is pursuing a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies at Central European University, working on the project “Eating Ontology: A Deconstructive Investigation of Alimentary Tropes in Four Contemporary Turns to Ontologies Advancing Ecological Thinking”. By focusing on alimentary tropes and relationships, she mainly engages with the strands of new materialisms, medical and environmental humanities in STS, the ontological turn in anthropology, and the discourses of some Indigenous scholars. Broadly, her research interests include feminist theories of the body, queer theory, continental philosophy, critical pedagogy, and contemporary art practices.
- From November 2024 to February 2025, Ana will be doing a research stay in the Department of Metaphysics and Current Strands of Philosophy, Ethics, and Political Philosophy at the Universidad de Sevilla, supported by the CEU Doctoral Research Support Grant program (DRSG).
- From January to June 2024, she visited the University of the Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) with a grant awarded by the Open Society University Network (OSUN).
- From October to December 2023, Ana was a visiting fellow at the Lehrstuhlinhaberin Westeuropäische Literaturen at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) with a research fellowship from Viadrina International Program – for Graduates (VIP).
- From October 2022 to September 2023, she was a visitor at the Laboratory: Anthropology Of Environment | Human Relations at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with funding provided by DAAD scholarship.